Wired.com has an article about weblogs being filtered out at the workplace. The primary driver for disallowing blog access at work is the fear that “employees might leak sensitive material… while posting comments to blog message boards.”
Understandable. I just hope they don’t implement that policy where I am. 😉
Today’s Honolulu Advertiser has an interesting article about the growing popularity of coffee and coffee drinks in the United Kingdom. In fact, the steady increase of coffee is making an impact on tea sales.
Starbucks has something to do with this shift. Starting with a single store in 1998, the Starbucks chain now has 466 stores in Britain with 200 of them in London. For comparison, within New York City, there are 190 Starbucks locations.
Gotta ask Kim about this since she recently returned from England. Although she was supposedly on an archaeological excavation, I’m sure she made time for tea, or was it a Frappuccino?
The article is available from the Post Gazette.
Starbucks stock “SBUX” is at $55.01.
Ate dinner at Los Chaparros, a new Mexican restaurant in the McCully area. Los Chaparros translates to “the shorties” and is run by the transplanted shorties, Mario and Lisa. The interior is spacious with a decor featuring an Aztec calendar and indoor fountains.
The food is tasty starting with plentiful chips and salsa (yes, free Tabasco Man). The huge bowl of salsa wasn’t overly spicy but had a kick to it. I ordered their house specialty, the Super Chaparros Burrito (chicken with red sauce), which was just the right size. I didn’t feel grossly overstuffed eating my meal. Although I think the zestier green sauce might have been a better match than the tamer red sauce. The prices are reasonable with my Super Burrito costing $10, and Judy’s burrito/tamale combo plate was $13.
Service was excellent with our waiter constantly refilling ice water, hot water for tea, and coffee. Lots of customers came through the doors while we were there. Although the six parking stall arrangement is tough, street parking is available. Yeah, I’d go back again, but the parking… maybe for another team building work event.
Los Chaparros Mexican Restaurant
2140 S. Beretania St.
Honolulu, HI 96826
808-951-MEXX (6399)
loschaparros@hawaii.rr.com
www.loschaparros.com
Map provided by Yahoo available from previous post. View all the pictures.
With the list of suspects getting shorter, the Carver gotta be Christian’s girlfriend, Kimber. Who else could have the planted evidence from the last episode “Granville Trapp?” Also, that dream sequence with Kimber before Christian was freed must have foreshadowed something. Christian did say that everyone he trusted turned their backs while he was arrested, but in a sick and twisted way, Kimber as the Carver could have saved Christian and proved his innocence by attacking Detective Kit while Christian was in jail. They got a strange relationship.
For next week’s Nip/Tuck, what’s Gina doing on the show? I thought she died from AIDS?
This show continues to be one messed up ride.
Just found out about it today in the paper…
Mactoberfest!
Date: Oct. 22, 2005
Time: 9:00 – 1 pm
Location: Kapi’olani Comm. College Cafeteria
Join us for our annual Mactoberfest. Swap meet, refreshments, speakers! Fixit Clinic or demo (TBA). Door prizes throughout the morning. Email Kimo Sutton kimos@mac.com if you’d like a swap meet table – free for HMAUS members, $20 for all others. Computer stuff, household stuff (not junk please), whatevah.
Free talks! Click i! Fixit! Stick it! (into the mail that is)
9:15 Jan Hathaway, Designer and Photoshop Instructor demonstates several “Down and Dirty Tricks” for editing your photos using Photoshop Elements 3. She’ll also give design tips you can use for taking good photos to begin with. Digital cameras are of high quality these days – use Elements to give them some pazzaz or to tweak them in an instant. Hey…one of our door prizes is Scott Kelby’s “Elements 3 Down and Dirty Tricks” – a super book at $34.99 retail!
10:45 David McGee, Apple Rep presents Pages for making your Christmas newletter, flyer or cards. David is a great presenter and very knowledgeable He may give you a peep at the new iPod Nano! 2 – 4 gigs of music, pod casts and pictures of your choosing. Fits nicely into a Christmas stocking…for yourself (^.^)!
11:45 HMAUS Annual Meeting.
Want to give us a hand? Email Joan Matsukawa at jmatsuka@hawaii.edu. We can use help with setup, refreshments, cleanup, manning our front table. More fun when you’re a part of the day..really! 😎
Going to try out a new Mexican restaurant, Los Chaparros, in the McCully area. Here’s a map provided by Yahoo!
The Iolani School Bulletin, Fall 2005 issue, arrived in the mail today. Flipping through it, there’s a big section talking about Elements Spa & Salon on page 72 (PDF file available). I couldn’t find the class notes about the opening of the wildly successful Club 939! What an outrage!
Stew, did you forget to mail that Class Notes form in? Instead of your pic, why not send in the latest ad?
Man, the notes for our class is pretty sad.
Just some pics of soon-to-be-released kicks.
P-rod
De la Soul Dunks
Zoom Team Editions (Raiders No Ka Oi?)
Flight 89 with Jordanesque elephant print (white and black).
Nice!
Technorati Tags: Kicks
The October 17 issue of Time magazine has a cover story on the world’s most innovative company, Apple.
Conventional wisdom says its strategy is wrong, yet it keeps turning out great products. TIME looks inside the world’s most innovative company.
Although the on-line version of the article is not yet available from Time, them crazy Canadians have the article on Time Canada. Read the Canadian version of How Apple Does It, eh?
Starbucks is creating a stir by putting a God-filled quote from the Rev. Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, on its cups.
Here is the quote:
“You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never reveal your real purpose. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance and our destiny.”
Starbucks is printing 63 quotes from writers, scientists, musicians, athletes, politicians and cultural critics on cups. You can read the article here.
Today’s Apple Special Event wasn’t as exciting as the previous one with the video iPod. Today, we see the release of updated PowerBooks at a reduced cost and new PowerMacs. The PowerMacs continue to use the G5 PowerPC chip with the G4 in the PowerBooks, but the PowerMacs feature dual and even quad cores. The new video architecture of the PowerMacs can push video to 4(!!) Apple 30-in Cinema Displays. Holy moley that’s a lot of screen real estate. How do you fit four 30-in screens on your desk?
Oh yeah, Aperture, a professional-level app for photographers, has been announced as well.
Read a recap of the Special Events.
Jakob Nielsen, a well-known web site usability expert, lists his top ten design mistakes for weblogs. Here’s a non-detailed list:
Hmmm, I think Pulpconnection exhibits many of Mr. Nielsen’s no-no’s. I better take a look and make improvements to this site!
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